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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Australia, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 1 Comment »
According to this Gamespot story, Super Smash Bros. Brawl will release in Australia on June 26. The game has already been confirmed for a European release on June 27. Read more..Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 3 Comments »
A Nintendo UK spokesperson has just confirmed to videogaming247 that the release date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl is officially set at June 27 in Europe. The staffer also verified the ... Read more..Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in DS, Europe, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii, WiiWare | 10 Comments »
GoNintendo's just published what is supposedly a release schedule from Nintendo Norway, which dates a huge amount of product for Europe, including Super Smash Bros. Brawl for June 27. WiiWare is ... Read more..Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Nintendo, Rumour, Wii | 4 Comments »
A "press release" claiming to announce a Wii download called Wii Want More isn't exactly kosher, according to Nintendo UK. "I expect it to be false," a rep told videogaming247 this ... Read more..Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 6 Comments »
Following plenty of complaints of less than reliable server connections in online Super Smash Bros. Brawl games in the US, Nintendo has made a statement saying sheer weight of numbers ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in America, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 3 Comments »
Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 1.4 million units since its March 9 launch in the US, making it the fastest selling Nintendo of America game of all time. Selling more ... Read more..Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in America, Fighter, Nintendo, Rumour, Wii | 5 Comments »
Here. Apparently some of the problems gamers have had running Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the US may have been caused by cigarette smoke clouding Wii's laser. The Boston Herald ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in America, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 5 Comments »
According to this, Boston beat Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York in the first official Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. There's a video through the link of people going ... Read more..Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in America, Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 2 Comments »
According to this, a small but significant number of Super Smash Bros. Brawl purchases are showing disc errors in the US, but Nintendo has moved lightning-strike Pikachu stylt to make ... Read more..Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Charts, Japan | 3 Comments »
Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii Fit got pushed into second and third place respectively last week in Japan, with Namco's Gundam Musou Special for PS2 coming in on top ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Korea, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Retail, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360 | 23 Comments »
Wow. Nintendo sold 331,627 units of Wii in the four weeks to February 24, compared with 89,131 units of PS3, Enterbrain said today, meaning almost four Wii consoles were sold ... Read more..Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | No Comments »
As was widely reported yesterday, NOA's Reggie Fils-Aime said at GDC that Super Smash Bros. Brawl was to release in Europe this autumn, far behind Japan and America. It transpires ... Read more..Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Fighter, GDC 2008, Nintendo, Wii | 3 Comments »
According to this, Nintendo isn't planning on releasing big-name Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Europe until the autumn this year. Reggie gave the game away, so to speak, ... Read more..Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Nintendo, Wii | 1 Comment »
According to this, Smash Bros. Brawl doesn't include voice chat for online games. Quite why no one's pointed this out before is beyond us, see as the title sailed ... Read more..Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Charts, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | No Comments »
Super Smash Bros. Brawl is still leading the Japanese charts according to this, having sold 142,000 copies in the last week. Here's the list: Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) Wii Fit (Wii) Tokimeki ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Charts, Fitness, Japan, Wii | No Comments »
About as surprising as the sun coming up, this, but there we are. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has stayed at number one in the Japanese charts, according to Media Create, ... Read more..Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in America, GDC 2008, Nintendo, Virtual Console, Wii | No Comments »
Nintendo's just put out a press release detailing its GDC sessions, and one specifically related to download channel WiiWare has been confirmed. "On Friday, Feb. 22 at 9 am, Takashi Aoyama ... Read more..Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | 2 Comments »
Despite only being on sale for 11 days, Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold more than 1 million copies in Japan, according to this. The game is the fastest ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Charts, Fighter, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | 6 Comments »
Nearly a million Japanese people can't be wrong. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 820,000 units in its first week on sale in Japan, according to Media Create, for the ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | 2 Comments »
Here. He's playing using Solid Snake, obviously, but he looks as though he's having a nice old time there, bashing away on the game that's currently taking Japan by storm. ... Read more..Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Charts, Fighter, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | 1 Comment »
According to this, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl will hit the 800,000 units sold mark in its first week on store shelves in Japan. All these figures are approximate, and ... Read more..Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Charts, Fighter, Japan, Nintendo, Wii | 2 Comments »
If this is correct, Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold more than 700,000 units in its first four days on sale in Japan. The figure is taken from ... Read more..Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Japan, Retail, Rumour, Wii | 8 Comments »
Bloody hell fire. According to this, citing "leaked Famitsu figures", Super Smash Bros. Brawl sold over 500,000 units on its first day on sale in Japan this week. The Wii ... Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
It is what it is. Go here for pictures of people queuing up to get their hands on Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan. Marvel at the way they're all ... Read more..Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
Go and see. Knock yourself out. Drown in an orgy of Nintendo spunkery. Brawl is currently destroying the internet, smacking GoNintendo's servers yesterday as the masses flooded to see pictures ... Read more..Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
It's enough to raise a rosy glow. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has been picking over the bones of his past in the latest of his official interviews, reminiscing on the ... Read more..Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
Sweet irony. Despite the entire internet having paroxysms about Nintendo's cutie Wii fighter, demand for the game is likely to promote shortages and small delays. We mean "small", but such ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Music | No Comments »
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata reckons the music in upcoming Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl may just about show value for money. "Actually, the department that handles contracts and copyrights said ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
Phew. We almost went a few hours without getting stupidly excited about a Wii fighting game, there. There's some spoilers in this, apparently, a video "leaked" from the now-available Japanese ... Read more..Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Fighter | No Comments »
Japanese demo pods of Wii's Super Smash Bros. Brawl are now in the public domain, so all hope of everyone shutting up about the frigging game are now officially out ... Read more..
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